Job summary
- Main area
- Colorectal Cancer Nurse Specialist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 200-7379645-GO-ND
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Georges Hospital NHS Foundation trust
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Macmillan Colorectal Cancer Nurse Specialist
Band 7
Job overview
We’re looking for a passionate and experienced nurse to join our dynamic colorectal cancer team as a Macmillan Colorectal Cancer Nurse Specialist. This is more than a job — it’s a chance to be a key part of a nationally recognised cancer service, delivering compassionate, expert care to patients throughout their cancer journey.
As a Macmillan professional, you’ll be supported to grow, lead, and innovate in a role that blends clinical excellence with leadership, education, and service development.
Main duties of the job
- Deliver high-quality, patient-centred care across inpatient and outpatient settings.
- Act as a clinical expert in colorectal cancer, supporting surgical and oncology teams.
- Lead nurse-led clinics, perform holistic needs assessments, and support treatment planning.
- Provide education and emotional support to patients and families.
- Contribute to MDT meetings, service development, audits, and research.
- Support staff education and act as a role model in clinical practice.
- Ensure compliance with national cancer standards and COSD metrics.
Working for our organisation
With over 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Our main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London.
A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the role, responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the attached document.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree (BSc) or equivalent in a health related subject, or working towards
- NMC Adult registered Nurse
- Advanced practitioner through formal qualification (Degree) and or extensive clinical pertinent to the area(
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced communication skills
- Strong leadership skills (1)
- Autonomous practitioner(1)
- Excellent written and oral communication
Desirable criteria
- Experience in audits/data base updates
- Service improvement experience
- Advanced decision making skills
- Physical Assessment skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant demonstrable and transferable experience in the area of speciality
- Leadership and management experience
- Clear understanding of safeguarding procedures
Desirable criteria
- Project management skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to impart complex information to patients, relatives and carers with different levels of understanding
- Training and teaching abilities
- Demonstrates an understanding of clinical risk
- Knowledge of research /data collection /projects
Others
Essential criteria
- Flexible
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected].
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jane Morales
- Job title
- Colorectal Cancer Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087255349
- Additional information
Caitlin Harvey Macmillan Head of Nursing for Cancer|St Georges NHS Foundation Trust [email protected] | Use Ext. 3360
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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